Interview: The journalist looks back at a dark and little-known period of recent history. The detention of thousands of Harki families in unsanitary camps in the heart of Lot-et-Garonne. Also an intimate story because he was born there.
A thousand French families were camped in the heart of Lot-et-Garonne between 1963 and 1975 by state order. Unimaginable and yet real. But who knows? If we know the tax people, these native soldiers who fought for France during the Second World War, then during the Algerian War (1954-1962), we do not know, however, in what conditions they lived in France, the country of refuge. He was chased and killed by the forces of the National Liberation Front (NLF) for protecting the tricolor flag. In the documentary Bias: Camp of ShameOur colleague Dalila Kerchuche tells the little-known story of Harki families, including her own, and their expulsion from society in illegal camps such as the Beas camp on the banks of the Lot.
Bias, camp of contemptextract
Through the testimonies of 4 women, she reveals how families lived in unsanitary conditions for more than ten years, locked behind barbed wire and often arbitrarily separated…
Source: Le Figaro
